Anyone else have great memories from Raceway Park.... I used to race there so much throught the 70's . . 1971 and 72 with my 68 LeMans.. Won my first Class winner sticker with that car.. I still have the trophy from that win.. Then in 1973 I put the 68 Firebird together ran it in Stock Eliminator, started as a E/S ( E stock ) then switched it to a automatic and ran E/SA ( E Stock Automatic ) . Then moved up to Super Stock.. First as a SS/IA then switched it to a Ram Air IV motor and that bumped me up to SS/EA... The pile of class winner stickers just kept getting bigger and bigger...LOL.. Then Bracket Racing became popular. In 1977 I entered the points race. That was tough running in PRO/ET, there would be about 60 cars show up for first round.. I finished 3rd in the points race. Went to the East Coast Bracket Finals in York PA to represent Raceway park as one of their 10 Best... I was pretty cool being one of the guys that the other racers tried to stay away from in the staging lanes... I did have a lot of fun racing, I would go to Raceway Park on Wednesday nights, lsland Dragway on Saturday then back to Raceway Park on Sunday all in the same week...all summer long I still race not as much as back then and not a Pontiac (although my heart is still with Pontiac and would love to build another one some day) I have the GTO but that is going to stay stone stock.. I race my Buick and we go all over to race it, Bowling Green KY, Las Vegas NV, Indianapolis IL., Reynolds GA. and to near by tracks like Gainesville and Orlando here in FL. Anyone else got any stories??
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Avatar picture is my 1987 Buick Grand National pictured here in 2006 when I won the Tubro Street Modified Class at the Buick GS Nationals in Bowling Green KY. Car has run 9.64 at 140.11 mph.. Imagine this car sitting in Burger Chef on a Saturday night...
I remember Raceway Park. I used to go there with Phil Biondi from Middlesex and also remember Island dragway in Hacketstown. We used to go there on Sundays all summer long. Do you remember Old Bridge Speedway with there 1/8th mile. The starting line was a bit of a downhill and they used to have a couple of guys hold your car from rolling (Befor line lock) Oop's i'm dating myself. Best racin of all was the 1/4 mile bridge on 287. The Wright Bros. Larry Lawrence Butchie Pongrantz Richie Solderburg and many others. Those were the days. Have a Great 4th. Dixie
GTO/GN, I spent a lot of time back in the day at Raceway Park in the late 60's early 70's. Did a little racing but nothing to the extent that you did. I really had no idea you took it that far back then. It was fun racing there I have to admit. It was also fun racing on the street at the comeback and at the 1/4 mile bridge on Rt.287. I did more of that back then then I did in Englishtown. Don't forget the nights at the Burger Chef. That parking lot was full of american muscle cars that cars had to park over into the Krausers parking lot right behind the Burger Chef lot and at the Food Fair across the street if you remember. Remember D. Patullo's Mustang and Adam Tarnowski's '66 Chevelle with the tilt nose. Dennis's Mustang was fast but I remember this guy coming down from Old Bridge or South River, can't remember for sure. He came with what I think was an Olds that sounded like your fathers car. I remember he was wearing a trench coat. I think they called him Bush if I remember correctly. Didn't look like the racing type at all but blew Dennis's Mustang away that night on 287. I couldn't believe it.
When Adam T. built the tilt nose on his '66 Chevelle he only tack welded the hood every couple of inches all around that one night a bunch of us standing at the end of the 1/4 on Rt.287 heard a whirling noise as Adam flew right past us racing another car on the bridge. Little did we know it was Adams hood whirling right over our heads going down the embankment. If it whirled a little lower we could of all been decapitated the 5 or 6 of us standing at the finish line. Man when I think of some of the times we had back then I have to shake my head. It was unbelievable.
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The guy that spanked Dennis P and his Mustang was Howie Bush.. he owned a speed shop in Sayerville named Performance Associates. I used him for all my race stuff back then, and raced with their group both on the track and on the street.. There was a group of hard core street racers.. I watched street races all over with that group.. I saw races with as much as $5000.00 bets.. Boy do I have some street racing stories from those days to tell. To tell you the truth they were playing with Dennis that night. That Olds they brought out was like one of their toys. Not that Dennis's car wasn't fast, cause it was, I think it ran high 11's... But that Olds was a legal D/SA car as in a National Record Holder...
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Avatar picture is my 1987 Buick Grand National pictured here in 2006 when I won the Tubro Street Modified Class at the Buick GS Nationals in Bowling Green KY. Car has run 9.64 at 140.11 mph.. Imagine this car sitting in Burger Chef on a Saturday night...
then I did in Englishtown. Don't forget the nights at the Burger Chef. That parking lot was full of american muscle cars that cars had to park over into the Krausers parking lot right behind the Burger Chef lot and at the Food Fair across the street if you remember. Remember D. Patullo's Mustang and Adam Tarnowski's '66 Chevelle with the tilt nose. Dennis's Mustang was fast but I remember this guy coming down from Old Bridge or South River, can't remember for sure. He came with what I think was an Olds that sounded like your fathers car. I remember he was wearing a trench coat. I think they called him Bush if I remember correctly. Didn't look like the racing type at all but blew Dennis's Mustang away that night on 287. I couldn't believe it. 
